Wlastimil HOFMAN

MAN IN A HAT, ca. 1925 Oil, canvas; 25 x 25 cm

Signed l.d.: Wlastimil Hofman

Asking price 6000

Estimate 7500 - 8000

Wlastimil HOFMAN

1881 Karlino - 1971 Szklarska Poreba

Studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under Florian Cynk, Jan Stanislawski, Leon Wyczolkowski and Jacek Malczewski. In 1899-1902 he still studied with Jean Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. During World War I he stayed in Prague and Paris; from 1920 he lived permanently in Cracow. He exhibited a lot; he belonged to many creative associations - he was a co-founder of the "Group of Five" (1905) and the "Group of Zero" (1908), a member of the Association of Czech Artists "Manes", and from 1911 a member of the Polish Artists' Society "Sztuka". During World War II, through the USSR and Turkey, he made his way to Jerusalem, from where he returned to Krakow in 1946. Since 1947 he lived permanently in Szklarska Poreba. He painted mainly fantastic-symbolic compositions with folk motifs, as well as genre scenes, portraits and landscapes. His paintings, despite close analogies and connections with the art of Malczewski, are always distinguished by their individual character and style.